Describe your strengths and weaknesses with this assignment. Were there any difficulties in your rehearsal process and/or your performance? Any memorable moments?
I loved this assignment. I think it was difficult for me to channel my character since nothing so heart breaking has ever happened to me (Thank Goodness).Anyway, I really thought this helped my acting by forcing me to live through a character...I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I think my strengths with this assignment were that i was really in the moment and that i was not holding back. I do not know how it read from the audience but on the inside i really felt every emotion and i feel that I completely became the person i was trying to be. Again i do not know if this read from the audience but yea. I think my weaknesses were what mrs sundberg said. That there was not enough contrast between the beginning of the monologue and the end. she was right. There emotion (althuogh very big inside of me) did not read and come out into the audience enough. A memorable moment was after i said the last word i was still in the moment and i just swelled with emotion and i started to cry.
so i really likes this assignment. It wasn't too hard to memorize my monologue except for the fact that i forgot it when i went on stage. I think i set myself up for defeat though, i was so nervous and i gave my paper to Josh in case i needed a line so i was too dependent on that. Other then that i liked it a lot i had a whole background for my character in my head and it helped make it connect a little better.
honestly, I really had trouble connecting with my character at first, becasue I haven't gone through anything as traumatic or sad as my character has. I was trying to make it seem like I was all tough and mean on the exterior, but underneath, I was depressed, unhappy, and going through really tough times. Obviously, the audience had no idea that I was in pain internally until the end. I think that, to improve the quality of my performance, it would have been nice if I had shown more emotion at the end, and really started tearing up or something. Because I didn't, I think that I ciuld have been more in the moment, or done more to prepare to open up and break down my character's barriers. But anyway, I liked this assignment alot. Oh, ad I think that the most memorable part was the fact that I was tied up in a chair for the whole thing.
Okay so this was probably my favorite and least favorite assignment, if that makes any sense. I didn't like this assignment becuase I'm the type of person that likes to over analyze and take a lot of time working on material I am going to perform. With this assignment I felt like we didn't have much rehearsal time and it was hard to rehearse becuase it was an individual assignment. I loved this assignment more than I didn't like it, though. First of all, I absolutely LOVED my monologue and was a little afriad I wasn't going to be able to do it justice. Second, I had such a good experience doing it infront of the class and learned so much about myself and my acting. I learned that I need a lot of preperation for myself before I perform because I really need to put myself in the moment. In class, I felt a little distracted and like I wasn't completely focused. I also learned that I must use supstitution in order to really show emotions, which I had to do for this monlogue. I also learned that I hold back a little, subconsicously and that I need to stop and just let go of everything. My favorite moments of this assignment were probably when I would do it in my room by myself and just cry and let everything out because I was completely in the moment. That was really cool. So this was an awesome assignment!
I really enjoyed this assignment because it allowed me to really be someone else. As you could probably see, the monologue I chose was the complete opposite of myself and I think it's really important for an actor to be able to live as another. When I was onstage as Gina, I stood, spoke, walked, and even thought as Gina would. I was not Kelsey Silberman one bit. It was easy for me to memorize the dialogue because, to me, it seemed like Gina was telling a story to her audience. When there is a story to be told, I can easily remember the gist of it if not the exact words. I think I did a good job portraying Gina to the audience through her tone of voice and attitude. If I could change anything that I did wrong during my performance, I would have focused more on keeping my hands from doing what Kelsey would do, which is tap my fingers together, to doing what Gina would do (Probably hands on hips). Overall, I think this was a great assignment and a great chance to step out of your comfort zone.
I ADORED this assignment. This was probably the greatest thing I've ever done. I felt completely in character, like any insane first grade alien loving teacher should. There weren't any difficulties at all. Although a lot of people said my particular monologue was rather long... I didn't see it at all. It was just one giant story... and you just had to make sure you told it properly. No big deal. As for memorable moments... the entire thing in itself was memorable... but I think I remember the most how SHOCKED Ray looked. He literally looked so horrified that I just wanted to stop and apologize in the middle of my monologue. (I'M SORRY RAY.)
When i did this assignment i didn't want to change anything i loved how samuel jackson did it in pulp fiction at the end so that's how i thought it should be. Until you pushed me in a different direction and i did outstanding that way i just like to plan things too much and i need someone to push me out of that thanks Mrs. Sundberg besides that i loved the monologue. It was fun to use the prop gun it made things better.
When we were first given this assignment I was instantly not looking forward to it, because I remember this assignment being one of the most nerve racking ones last year. But in a few minutes the opening monologue to American Psycho popped into my head, and I instantly got excited for it. Eventually though I changed my mind and decided to do the "lawyer confession" scene instead, and I think that was a very good decision. At first I was nervous about doing it since it's a very fast paced scene, and I was afraid I would end up just mushing all of my words together and it wouldn't make any sense. Although I ended up doing way better then I thought. Everyone seemed to love it, and as far as I know I didn't miss a single line. I honestly think this might be one of the better things I've done, just based on how strongly I went into and out of it. The only hard part about it was making sure that I didn't stutter, or go too fast. Overall this has been one of the most enjoyable acting assignments I think I've done so far.
Okay so I loved my monologue. I'm going to start by saying that. Especially because I've never been through even a little bit of what my character had. I've never been pregnant, or gone completley insane, or had someone who I loved more then anything else die before I had a chance to even realize they were gone. I had a lot a LOT of trouble memorizing lines, but in the end I think I managed to pull it off quite nicely :]
I was proud of myself and I think everyone really did a great job with this assignment!
I thought this would be a great assignment. And it WAS!!! I had trouble practicing at home due to laungage. But i got past that. I liked acting out Benders monolouge because it has sarcasim and comedy to seriousness... I don't know. I thought it was great especially when i had to get serious and the cursing was new and fun as well. I thought my perfromance was good and i recieved all good feedback from it. I was actually looking for bad stuff to work on, but got none... ahhhh well. A boost of confindence never hurts either. :)
~Christie Hackett~ Okay so, I think I broke my nose falling on my face during this assignment. I mean, on a one to ten scale my performance deserves nothing better than a negative three million. Difficulties? Several. My memorable moment? Proabably the part when I started laughing so I wouldn't cry. All in all though, I am glad we did this. Seriously. I really enjoyed watching everyone perform, and I think I learned a lot by just watching other people go up and do truely wonderful, well thought out pieces. There wasn't one monolauge I didn't thouroughly enjoy, and I feel like listening and just watching was enough for me to get the right stuff from this. I mean, I've always been the observer-type, so watching other monolauges and learning second hand was definately my style. But you can't learn life lessons second-hand can you? That's my problem, I watch life like some movie, but really I have to be IN that movie to really experience things, I think. Yeah, thats my problem, im stuck watching and I'm convinced my seat here is so good I just can't give it up.
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I loved this assignment. I think it was difficult for me to channel my character since nothing so heart breaking has ever happened to me (Thank Goodness).Anyway, I really thought this helped my acting by forcing me to live through a character...I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I think my strengths with this assignment were that i was really in the moment and that i was not holding back. I do not know how it read from the audience but on the inside i really felt every emotion and i feel that I completely became the person i was trying to be. Again i do not know if this read from the audience but yea. I think my weaknesses were what mrs sundberg said. That there was not enough contrast between the beginning of the monologue and the end. she was right. There emotion (althuogh very big inside of me) did not read and come out into the audience enough. A memorable moment was after i said the last word i was still in the moment and i just swelled with emotion and i started to cry.
so i really likes this assignment. It wasn't too hard to memorize my monologue except for the fact that i forgot it when i went on stage. I think i set myself up for defeat though, i was so nervous and i gave my paper to Josh in case i needed a line so i was too dependent on that. Other then that i liked it a lot i had a whole background for my character in my head and it helped make it connect a little better.
honestly, I really had trouble connecting with my character at first, becasue I haven't gone through anything as traumatic or sad as my character has. I was trying to make it seem like I was all tough and mean on the exterior, but underneath, I was depressed, unhappy, and going through really tough times. Obviously, the audience had no idea that I was in pain internally until the end. I think that, to improve the quality of my performance, it would have been nice if I had shown more emotion at the end, and really started tearing up or something. Because I didn't, I think that I ciuld have been more in the moment, or done more to prepare to open up and break down my character's barriers. But anyway, I liked this assignment alot. Oh, ad I think that the most memorable part was the fact that I was tied up in a chair for the whole thing.
Okay so this was probably my favorite and least favorite assignment, if that makes any sense. I didn't like this assignment becuase I'm the type of person that likes to over analyze and take a lot of time working on material I am going to perform. With this assignment I felt like we didn't have much rehearsal time and it was hard to rehearse becuase it was an individual assignment. I loved this assignment more than I didn't like it, though. First of all, I absolutely LOVED my monologue and was a little afriad I wasn't going to be able to do it justice. Second, I had such a good experience doing it infront of the class and learned so much about myself and my acting. I learned that I need a lot of preperation for myself before I perform because I really need to put myself in the moment. In class, I felt a little distracted and like I wasn't completely focused. I also learned that I must use supstitution in order to really show emotions, which I had to do for this monlogue. I also learned that I hold back a little, subconsicously and that I need to stop and just let go of everything. My favorite moments of this assignment were probably when I would do it in my room by myself and just cry and let everything out because I was completely in the moment. That was really cool. So this was an awesome assignment!
I really enjoyed this assignment because it allowed me to really be someone else. As you could probably see, the monologue I chose was the complete opposite of myself and I think it's really important for an actor to be able to live as another. When I was onstage as Gina, I stood, spoke, walked, and even thought as Gina would. I was not Kelsey Silberman one bit. It was easy for me to memorize the dialogue because, to me, it seemed like Gina was telling a story to her audience. When there is a story to be told, I can easily remember the gist of it if not the exact words. I think I did a good job portraying Gina to the audience through her tone of voice and attitude. If I could change anything that I did wrong during my performance, I would have focused more on keeping my hands from doing what Kelsey would do, which is tap my fingers together, to doing what Gina would do (Probably hands on hips). Overall, I think this was a great assignment and a great chance to step out of your comfort zone.
I ADORED this assignment. This was probably the greatest thing I've ever done. I felt completely in character, like any insane first grade alien loving teacher should. There weren't any difficulties at all. Although a lot of people said my particular monologue was rather long... I didn't see it at all. It was just one giant story... and you just had to make sure you told it properly. No big deal. As for memorable moments... the entire thing in itself was memorable... but I think I remember the most how SHOCKED Ray looked. He literally looked so horrified that I just wanted to stop and apologize in the middle of my monologue. (I'M SORRY RAY.)
When i did this assignment i didn't want to change anything i loved how samuel jackson did it in pulp fiction at the end so that's how i thought it should be. Until you pushed me in a different direction and i did outstanding that way i just like to plan things too much and i need someone to push me out of that thanks Mrs. Sundberg besides that i loved the monologue. It was fun to use the prop gun it made things better.
When we were first given this assignment I was instantly not looking forward to it, because I remember this assignment being one of the most nerve racking ones last year. But in a few minutes the opening monologue to American Psycho popped into my head, and I instantly got excited for it. Eventually though I changed my mind and decided to do the "lawyer confession" scene instead, and I think that was a very good decision. At first I was nervous about doing it since it's a very fast paced scene, and I was afraid I would end up just mushing all of my words together and it wouldn't make any sense. Although I ended up doing way better then I thought. Everyone seemed to love it, and as far as I know I didn't miss a single line. I honestly think this might be one of the better things I've done, just based on how strongly I went into and out of it. The only hard part about it was making sure that I didn't stutter, or go too fast. Overall this has been one of the most enjoyable acting assignments I think I've done so far.
Okay so I loved my monologue. I'm going to start by saying that. Especially because I've never been through even a little bit of what my character had. I've never been pregnant, or gone completley insane, or had someone who I loved more then anything else die before I had a chance to even realize they were gone. I had a lot a LOT of trouble memorizing lines, but in the end I think I managed to pull it off quite nicely :]
I was proud of myself and I think everyone really did a great job with this assignment!
I thought this would be a great assignment. And it WAS!!! I had trouble practicing at home due to laungage. But i got past that. I liked acting out Benders monolouge because it has sarcasim and comedy to seriousness... I don't know. I thought it was great especially when i had to get serious and the cursing was new and fun as well. I thought my perfromance was good and i recieved all good feedback from it. I was actually looking for bad stuff to work on, but got none... ahhhh well. A boost of confindence never hurts either. :)
~Christie Hackett~
Okay so, I think I broke my nose falling on my face during this assignment.
I mean, on a one to ten scale my performance deserves nothing better than a negative three million.
Difficulties? Several.
My memorable moment? Proabably the part when I started laughing so I wouldn't cry.
All in all though, I am glad we did this. Seriously. I really enjoyed watching everyone perform, and I think I learned a lot by just watching other people go up and do truely wonderful, well thought out pieces.
There wasn't one monolauge I didn't thouroughly enjoy, and I feel like listening and just watching was enough for me to get the right stuff from this.
I mean, I've always been the observer-type, so watching other monolauges and learning second hand was definately my style.
But you can't learn life lessons second-hand can you?
That's my problem, I watch life like some movie, but really I have to be IN that movie to really experience things, I think. Yeah, thats my problem, im stuck watching and I'm convinced my seat here is so good I just can't give it up.
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